Molecular systematics of the marine Dothideomycetes.

ABSTRACT: Phylogenetic analyses of four nuclear genes, namely the large and small subunits of the nuclear ribosomal RNA, transcription elongation factor 1-alpha and the second largest RNA polymerase II subunit, established that the ecological group of marine bitunicate ascomycetes has representatives in the orders Capnodiales, Hysteriales, Jahnulales, Mytilinidiales, Patellariales and Pleosporales. Most of the fungi sequenced were intertidal mangrove taxa and belong to members of 12 families in the Pleosporales: Aigialaceae, Didymellaceae,Leptosphaeriaceae, Lenthitheciaceae, Lophiostomataceae, Massarinaceae,Montagnulaceae, Morosphaeriaceae, Phaeosphaeriaceae, Pleosporaceae, Testudinaceae and Trematosphaeriaceae. Two new families are described: Aigialaceae and Morosphaeriaceae, and three new genera p

SUBMITTER: Suetrong S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2816972 | biostudies-literature | 2009

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature